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CMake
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Introduction
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============
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CMake is a cross-platform, open-source build system generator.
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For full documentation visit the `CMake Home Page`_ and the
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`CMake Documentation Page`_.
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.. _`CMake Home Page`: http://www.cmake.org
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.. _`CMake Documentation Page`: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/documentation.html
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CMake is maintained and supported by `Kitware`_ and developed in
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collaboration with a productive community of contributors.
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.. _`Kitware`: http://www.kitware.com/cmake
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License
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=======
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CMake is distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-clause License.
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See `Copyright.txt`_ for details.
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.. _`Copyright.txt`: Copyright.txt
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Building CMake
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==============
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Supported Platforms
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-------------------
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MS Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, BeOS, QNX
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Other UNIX-like operating systems may work too out of the box, if not
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it should not be a major problem to port CMake to this platform.
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Subscribe and post to the `CMake Users List`_ to ask if others have
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had experience with the platform.
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.. _`CMake Users List`: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
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Building CMake from Scratch
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---------------------------
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UNIX/Mac OSX/MinGW/MSYS/Cygwin
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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You need to have a compiler and a make installed.
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Run the ``bootstrap`` script you find the in the source directory of CMake.
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You can use the ``--help`` option to see the supported options.
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You may use the ``--prefix=<install_prefix>`` option to specify a custom
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installation directory for CMake. You can run the ``bootstrap`` script from
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within the CMake source directory or any other build directory of your
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choice. Once this has finished successfully, run ``make`` and
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``make install``. In summary::
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$ ./bootstrap && make && make install
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Windows
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^^^^^^^
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You need to download and install a binary release of CMake in order to build
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CMake. You can get these releases from the `CMake Download Page`_ . Then
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proceed with the instructions below.
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.. _`CMake Download Page`: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
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Building CMake with CMake
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-------------------------
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You can build CMake as any other project with a CMake-based build system:
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run the installed CMake on the sources of this CMake with your preferred
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options and generators. Then build it and install it.
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For instructions how to do this, see documentation on `Running CMake`_.
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.. _`Running CMake`: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/runningcmake.html
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Contributing
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============
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See `CONTRIBUTING.rst`_ for instructions to contribute.
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.. _`CONTRIBUTING.rst`: CONTRIBUTING.rst
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